Feb. 12, 1972:

Wilbur Mills for president campaign button.

Rep. Wilbur Mills (D-Ark.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, announces his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Although Mills will never make any headway in the primaries -- his best showings were a fourth-place finish in New Hampshire and Massachusetts -- he nonetheless will remain a candidate until the third day of the Democratic National Convention in July.

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